Hog-ring



s. w. ORR.

HOG RING.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 26. 1920.

Patented Aug. 23, 1921.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

H0 G-RING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 23, 1921.

Application filed November 26, 1920. Serial No. 426,525.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL W. ORR, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Green Valley, county of Tazewell, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hog- Rings, of which the following is a specification.

Thepurpose of this invention is to provide a hog ring having the usual function of such devices of discouraging the hog from grabbing or rooting under fences, but which is of such simple and open structure as not to collect mud or dirt. It is therefore an object of the invention to prevent dirt from caking around the hogs snout or under the hog ring as occurs in some forms of hog rings and to effectively prevent the hog from rooting by means of a simple structure and one which may be easily applied. It is a further object of the invention to provide a hog ring which will not easily wear out and therefore require frequent renewals, and which will last for the life of the hog, and to provide a hog ring which will not bother the animal except when it attempts to root.

These objects are accomplished by the device shown in the accompanying drawing, in which-- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hog ring constructed according to this invention.

Fig. 2 shows the device as it appears when ap lied to the hogs snout.

og rings are frequently made of sheet metal or bent wire but are often so arranged as to be much subject to wear and collection of dirt. The dirt cakes under a part of the ring and in some forms causes the ring to work out of the snout. It is found by use of the present structure that these objections can be avoided. The device as shown in the drawings is simply a piece of looped wire bent upon itself to an acute angle, the bight of the loop being circular and terminating in a pair of relatively close, parallel and straight prongs, these prongs forming one side of the angle and the loop the remaining side. When the device is in place on the hogs snout the bight rests on the upper part of his nose and the prongs project downwardly from the rear jthrough the snout, the forward ends of the prongs being bent in front of the snout to prevent the rlng from Working loose. This structure ordinarily does not bother the hog, but when he roots the downward pressure on the forward end of the bight has a pulling effect on the upper part of the ring while pressing the prongs inwardly against the hogs nose as the ring attempts to swing around its fulcrum.

In the drawings the hog ring is shown as an open formation comprising the bight 1 and the parallel prongs 2 forming an acute angle with the bight. The ends of the prongs are somewhat sharpened so that they may be easily passed through the gristle of the snout. In applying the hog ring the snout is first pierced by a separate instrument and then the prongs 2 are pushed downwardly through the incisions, and finally the downwardly extending ends of the prongs are slightly bent as shown at 3 on Fig. 2, for the purpose of preventing the ring from working out of the snout. If the portion 1 of the ring were not of open formation as shown, dirt would cake between this part of the device and the upper surface of the hogs nose and in time draw the ring out of the nose.

I claim:

1. A hog ring in the form of an open loop having parallel prongs bent to an acute angle with the loop, the ends of said prongs being bent to form projections extending transversely to said prongs, said loop and projections being located on op posite sides of the plane of said prongs.

2. A wire hog ring formed into an acute angle, one side of the angle being an open loop and the remaining side being a pair of prongs extending from the open end of the loop, the ends of said prongs being bent to form projections extending transversely to said prongs, said loop and projections being located on opposite sides of the plane of said prongs.

Signed at Green Valley this 20th day of Nov. 1920.

SAMUEL W. ORR. 

